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i don't think there would be any -- any tipping of any election in texas. major election in texas. one where the other if the law is implemented in this election cycle. it is the sort of issue that tends to rile up conservatives. so if the law is blocked it will make them angry. it has made them angry. it has been used as bludgeon against the obama administration. eric holder is a poster boy for much of the anger directed towards the administration over fast and furious. over this as well. the republicans have been bashing the justice department for stooiming something by many surveys is very popular and popular among demographic and ethnic groups in texas. >> anything else we should know as we continue to track the news here out of texas and the court case in washington? what else should we be looking for? >> i think it's going to be very interesting to see. we've had one day of trials so far. and the state of texas was trying to demonstrate or they started laying the ground work to demonstrate that there was no discriminatory intent that this law requiring a photo i.d. of one sor
i don't think there would be any -- any tipping of any election in texas. major election in texas. one where the other if the law is implemented in this election cycle. it is the sort of issue that tends to rile up conservatives. so if the law is blocked it will make them angry. it has made them angry. it has been used as bludgeon against the obama administration. eric holder is a poster boy for much of the anger directed towards the administration over fast and furious. over this as well. the...
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it would be the texas legislature. i don't know why that's the place for this case but it makes it more interesting, i think. >> you know, just a side note since this is a legal audience, texas had urged the court not to take the case. texas is generally a conservative state, a republican attorney general, urging the court not to take the case. they didn't want them to go further. after it was granted, texas hired an attorney. in our group, the higher you know him, upped the stakes in terms of what the representation would be. he won the name els case we were talking about. in some ways to have someone with the conservative credit of having been in the w. bush administration and coming in a very nonideological way will help texas' case as much as it could. >> he was on the winning side of the michigan case. he did a very good job in lawyering through a difficult case involving christian legal society at a law school and whether it could bar gay students from leadership positions. i agree with joan that having him in th
it would be the texas legislature. i don't know why that's the place for this case but it makes it more interesting, i think. >> you know, just a side note since this is a legal audience, texas had urged the court not to take the case. texas is generally a conservative state, a republican attorney general, urging the court not to take the case. they didn't want them to go further. after it was granted, texas hired an attorney. in our group, the higher you know him, upped the stakes in...
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so texas decides in their texas way that they do sometimes that they're not going to go with the program. those 2 million people won't be insured and yet they won't qualify for the subsidies in the affordable care act to help them be able to afford insurance on their own. so we'll literally have a situation where the poorest people, the people in the most need, will be totally left out in the cold. bobby jindal has already said in louisiana that he is not, in his state, going to go with the medicaid expansion, and you can imagine that a lot of these republicans are going to make this a litmus issue so that any republican who has national ambitions will have their feet held to the fire to also say they're not going to go forward with the medicaid expansion unless people like us get energized and we hold their feet to the fire and say you are not going to leave 2 million texas residents out in the cold. you are not going to do this to us. okay, that's our responsibility. we have to make it a political winner to implement this change and provide health care to literally millions of american
so texas decides in their texas way that they do sometimes that they're not going to go with the program. those 2 million people won't be insured and yet they won't qualify for the subsidies in the affordable care act to help them be able to afford insurance on their own. so we'll literally have a situation where the poorest people, the people in the most need, will be totally left out in the cold. bobby jindal has already said in louisiana that he is not, in his state, going to go with the...
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the texas hill country. i've talked about the hill country before, but i don't think you can talk about it too much, particularly in new york city. i saw what that meant growing up there myself, and it was quite a shock. i grew up in new york city, which is this place of fast-paced conversations and busy streets, theaters, and everything else. there was then a 9:00 plane from la guardia to austin. i take that plane, and sometimes when i got off that plane, i felt you rent a car and drive west out of austin into the hill country, and in those days i felt like i was iffing from one end of the earth to the other. i'll never forget the first time i drove out there. about 40 miles out of johnson -- out of austin as you are heading towards johnson city. there's a rise. they call it round mountain, but it's really just a tall hill. as i came to the top, something made me pull my car over to the side of the road to get out on the shoulder and look down in front of me because i was looking at something that i had nev
the texas hill country. i've talked about the hill country before, but i don't think you can talk about it too much, particularly in new york city. i saw what that meant growing up there myself, and it was quite a shock. i grew up in new york city, which is this place of fast-paced conversations and busy streets, theaters, and everything else. there was then a 9:00 plane from la guardia to austin. i take that plane, and sometimes when i got off that plane, i felt you rent a car and drive west...
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on more prosperous farms in other areas of texas, nearby areas of texas for a dollar a day to earn some cash money. so the woman of the house would be left there alone. i couldn't get -- had a hard time getting these women to talk to me at the beginning because incredibly enough they were very shy, very shy about talking to someone from the city, so, i, as a matter of fact learned to make fig preserves and she would go and become friends with the women, and then i could go back and they would talk to me more freely. they would say to me, you're a city boy. she says you don't know what bringing the water meant. they would say, and they would go to their attic, or their garage, and they'd bring out a bucket of water, often with the rope still attached, frayed old rope attached, and they would take me over to the wells which are always covered by these boards, and you'd push the boards aside and they'd say, they'd drop the bucket in and they would say, you're a city boy. you don't know how heavy a bucket of water is. now pull it up. of course, a bucket of water you find out is heavy to be
on more prosperous farms in other areas of texas, nearby areas of texas for a dollar a day to earn some cash money. so the woman of the house would be left there alone. i couldn't get -- had a hard time getting these women to talk to me at the beginning because incredibly enough they were very shy, very shy about talking to someone from the city, so, i, as a matter of fact learned to make fig preserves and she would go and become friends with the women, and then i could go back and they would...
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also those of us in texas are concerned that our u.s. citizens who decide to live temporarily in mexico are having their documents voided out of pressure and intimidation. >> i yield back. hope the chairman and ranking member would consider that an important hearing. this is an effective, legal an upstanding manner, as they have been. but this is an incident or snens that require our view. i yield back. i thank the gentle lady. >> i would comment to all of the members that the hearing record will be held open for ten days. so any comments, questions, records, can be submitted certainly for the record. i think this was an excellent hearing. a lot of questions. a lot of good answers. a lot of challenges ahead for this agency, for the committee, for the nation as well. as we try to do the best to make sure we do have secure borders. we simply try to be timely and cognizant of that fact. we have many in the agency that work very diligently every day to keep our country safe. with that, the sub committee will stand adjourned. >>> and a live l
also those of us in texas are concerned that our u.s. citizens who decide to live temporarily in mexico are having their documents voided out of pressure and intimidation. >> i yield back. hope the chairman and ranking member would consider that an important hearing. this is an effective, legal an upstanding manner, as they have been. but this is an incident or snens that require our view. i yield back. i thank the gentle lady. >> i would comment to all of the members that the...
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. >> my first job after college was as a teacher in texas, and a small, mexican-american school. few of them could speech english, and i couldn't speak much spanish. my students were poor, and they often came to class without breakfast, hungry, and they knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. they never seemed to know why people disliked them, but they knew it was so because i saw it in their eyes. i often walked home late in the afternoon after the classes were finished wishing there was more that i could do, but all i knew was to teach them the little that i knew, hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead, and somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. i never thought then in 1928 that i would be standing here in 1965. it never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that i might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country, but now i do have that chance, and i'll let you in on a secret. i mean to use
. >> my first job after college was as a teacher in texas, and a small, mexican-american school. few of them could speech english, and i couldn't speak much spanish. my students were poor, and they often came to class without breakfast, hungry, and they knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. they never seemed to know why people disliked them, but they knew it was so because i saw it in their eyes. i often walked home late in the afternoon after the classes were finished wishing...
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living in a state like texas, we have seen 99% good as opposed to harm. many of us have met these students that will be impacted up close and personal, and i appreciate that there have been a number of utilizations of powers under the law that your agency has been effective in utilizing. but i think this executive order will be helpful to all of us. but it would be better under comprehensive immigration reform. so i speak to two issues, and i'll do it quickly. a 14-year-old texas girl who was missing from 2010 until 2012 was mistakenly deported to colombia by immigration agents. it was proven the 14-year-old gave i.c.e. agents a fake name which belonged to a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from colombia who had warrants for her arrest. she was held in a harris county jail in my community. i.c.e. agents took the 14-year-old's fingerprints but did not confirm identity before deporting her. another incident, according to media report, james majkowski, a chicago area resident who was born in india and adopted by an american family in new jersey and naturalized
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during hargill, texas. they're in hidalgo. and director, i believe you're heading over there to visit the family and him also. i think he was shot there last week. again, thank you for showing. showing in one of the counties i represent. these terrible incidents are a stark reminder of the men and women that law enforcement put their lives on the line every day to make our country more secure. we greatly appreciate their service and sacrifice. the purpose of today's hearing is to examine the status of i.c.e. secure communities program, along with the agency's plan for the secure future of the program. removing aliens from the u.s. has been a congressional priority since 1986 with the passage of the immigration reform control act. the department of homeland security and its predecessor agency have operated programs targeting criminal aliens for removal since 1988. today under the secure communities program when participating law enforcement agencies submit the fingerprints of arrestees to the fbi for criminal background checks,
during hargill, texas. they're in hidalgo. and director, i believe you're heading over there to visit the family and him also. i think he was shot there last week. again, thank you for showing. showing in one of the counties i represent. these terrible incidents are a stark reminder of the men and women that law enforcement put their lives on the line every day to make our country more secure. we greatly appreciate their service and sacrifice. the purpose of today's hearing is to examine the...
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the chair recognizeses the gentleman from texas, mr. naggel bauer for a motion -- request, i mean. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself -- i think mr. king -- >> move to strike the last -- >> strike the last word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> with that, i think mr. king has a response to comments that have been made. and i yield my time to him. >> i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. and in response to the rebuttals that have been offered here, i would point out to the committee that 25% of the nutrition assistance program in puerto rico is cash benefits. 75% of it is processed some other way. most of it, if not all of it, by processing electronically. and here's the information that i have, going into this hearing this morning. prior to 2006, many merchants could not reasonably acquire the technology to process ebt cards to accept s.n.a.p. benefits. but in 2006, the commonwealth's legislature replaced the excised tax on imports with an island-wide sales tax. to implement and administer the sales tax, e
the chair recognizeses the gentleman from texas, mr. naggel bauer for a motion -- request, i mean. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself -- i think mr. king -- >> move to strike the last -- >> strike the last word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> with that, i think mr. king has a response to comments that have been made. and i yield my time to him. >> i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. and in response to the rebuttals that have...
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and the cemetery of the south texas town because he's not white. on the instant, john conley and walter jenkins are standing there when johnson hands him the telegram. johnson reads it and without a moment's hesitation ands by god, you are in arlington. all through his life there are these moments and here is another one. that christmas, that december, johnson goes down for a two-week vacation on his ranch and heller finds out that his analysis, his feeling -- that this was spontaneous, uncalculated and he finds out that that analysis was correct. johnson is down on the ranch. the johnson ranch and the ranch that his father lost and that he has now bought back. and when heller and kermit gordon get there, they find that those words were meaningless. johnson has found new money, half a billion for an antipoverty program and he gives it a lesson in political tactics they had thought of a program as a targeted demonstration program with demonstration programs in a limited number of cities. johnson says -- tries to make them understand that a limited n
and the cemetery of the south texas town because he's not white. on the instant, john conley and walter jenkins are standing there when johnson hands him the telegram. johnson reads it and without a moment's hesitation ands by god, you are in arlington. all through his life there are these moments and here is another one. that christmas, that december, johnson goes down for a two-week vacation on his ranch and heller finds out that his analysis, his feeling -- that this was spontaneous,...
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these are the districts in texas at the time. actually, three of these are minority districts and one is a majority white district. three of them are unconstitutional. one of them is not. and so one of the questions is, well, what work is compactness doing and bizarre shapes, right? because the court is not going to come out and say, all right, square districts are require under the constitution. in fact, sometimes you look in new york, look at the districts that we have here, a lot of them fall in the subway lines. the district just below the one we're in goes from west 85th street down the west side of manhattan, over the brooklyn bridge, into borough park, all the way to coney island. it's affectionately described as the nathan's district. because, you know, it follows a very long, largely white but not exclusively, a community that goes all the way from the upper west side of manhattan all the way into queens and -- brooklyn, i mean. the case of bush versus vera is a very interesting one. so these -- there were two african-am
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. >> i appreciate my friend from texas's concerns, i have to remind everyone that we have achieved a balance in the bill, and it's in the best interest of the bill and successful reform to maintain it. we have taken under consideration to try to achieve the balance and establish the minimum. the bill -- i realize we will fight on the skirmish line all the way back to atlanta, and we will, so with that, i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and in the spirit of the ranking member. and his comments i yield. >> and i would remind members this deal has been in the law since 1982. and it has survived the entire contract with america and 12 years of republican control. so, you know, we are willing to reform it, but this is not necessary. so, vote no. >> gentleman yields back, i yield back, seeing any further recognition request, i see none. all in favor of the amendment say aye? >> aye. >> all those saying no say no. >> the nos appear to have it. the nos appear to have it. the nos do have it. amendment number 73 fails. do we have additional amendments for title number four and i wo
. >> i appreciate my friend from texas's concerns, i have to remind everyone that we have achieved a balance in the bill, and it's in the best interest of the bill and successful reform to maintain it. we have taken under consideration to try to achieve the balance and establish the minimum. the bill -- i realize we will fight on the skirmish line all the way back to atlanta, and we will, so with that, i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and in the spirit of the ranking member....
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the chair of the full committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman, i associate myself with year your opening statement. recent leaks of highly classified information poses serious threat to our national security and put the lives of americans and our allies at risk. national security experts from both republican and democratic administrations have expressed outrage over the leaks and the effect they have on ongoing and future intelligence operations. what sets these leaks apart from other leaks we have seen is that the media reports that many of these have come from highly placed administration officials. if true, this means that administration officials are weakening our national security and endangering american lives. national security operational details exist to meet the covert needs of the intelligence community that protects the american people. as fbi director muller recently testified, "leaks such as this threaten ongoing operations, puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it much more difficult to recruit sources, and dam
the chair of the full committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman, i associate myself with year your opening statement. recent leaks of highly classified information poses serious threat to our national security and put the lives of americans and our allies at risk. national security experts from both republican and democratic administrations have expressed outrage over the leaks and the effect they have on ongoing and future intelligence...
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and gentleman from texas reserves the point of order. the gentleman may explain his -- is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the purpose of the amendment is to get feedback on whether the reimbursement rates, the second secretary of agriculture uses for u.s. territories -- the secretary has the authority to set differentiates for alaska and hawaii and the territories, but he has only done so for alaska and hawaii. my amendment asks the secretary to report to the committee and to the committee of agriculture and forestry to show how the cost compares to the current reimbursement rates. of course, there's a discrepancy, we want want to find a reasonable adjustment, but this amendment makes to requirement in that respect. it simply means to get more information. and so, amendment number 95, will require, again, the secretary of agriculture to report to the house committee, on the cost of providing school lunches and other meals and supplements in the u.s. territories in comparison to the national reimbursement
and gentleman from texas reserves the point of order. the gentleman may explain his -- is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the purpose of the amendment is to get feedback on whether the reimbursement rates, the second secretary of agriculture uses for u.s. territories -- the secretary has the authority to set differentiates for alaska and hawaii and the territories, but he has only done so for alaska and hawaii. my amendment asks the secretary to report to...
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but if you're a slave in texas, forget canada, go to mexico. so wherever there's free territory, slaves went and tried to build a life for themselves away from slavery. and i think one of the points i hope that came out in the lecture is that there's clearly a concept of what freedom means and they may not have written letters saying, you know, treatises about the nature of freedom and liberty, but you have to get at it by looking at their actions. [ applause ] >> thank you. >>> tomorrow on washington journal, reuters economics correspondent pedro da cost that discusses the latest job numbers. and senior reporter joan goldwasser talks about the dodd-frank act. and stephanie vance, author of "the influence game." starting at 7:45 eastern live on cspan. >> the life of a sailor included scrubbing the deck in the morning, climbing aloft, whatever the duties assigned, gun drill practice, but by the end of the day, you're ready for some rest. but you don't get a full eight hours of sleep. on a ship like the constitution, it's four hours on, four hour
but if you're a slave in texas, forget canada, go to mexico. so wherever there's free territory, slaves went and tried to build a life for themselves away from slavery. and i think one of the points i hope that came out in the lecture is that there's clearly a concept of what freedom means and they may not have written letters saying, you know, treatises about the nature of freedom and liberty, but you have to get at it by looking at their actions. [ applause ] >> thank you. >>>...
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. >> houston, texas, nancy. independent line. >> caller: good morning. here's a question i have that i'm always curious about. has any study or comparison been done on the amount that it costs for emergency room services for the uninsured versus the amount of the subsidy that will be given with taxpayer money to various people to pay their insurance fees? >> i don't know that offhand. >> well, from a federal government point of view, when the cdl analyzed the health care legislation, they tried to account for all those, and so it's finding it slightly decreased the deficit. the cost of expansion covered by the cut, which included those kinds of effects. rockville, maryland, ben on the democratic line. >> let's suppose enough states the health care costs stay the same and if the extra -- the state received let's say 500 million out of the $10 billion health care budget, then will the hurricane companies sit there and say, okay, well everybody's premium is $40 a month more expensive because the states didn't receive that money. because the people who go to
. >> houston, texas, nancy. independent line. >> caller: good morning. here's a question i have that i'm always curious about. has any study or comparison been done on the amount that it costs for emergency room services for the uninsured versus the amount of the subsidy that will be given with taxpayer money to various people to pay their insurance fees? >> i don't know that offhand. >> well, from a federal government point of view, when the cdl analyzed the health care...
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wherever texas -- sorry. texas slave holders tried proved to be futile as were efforts in kansas where some indian peoples were not inclined to respond positively to the entreaties and blusterings of missouri slave holders. finally there were the islands of the british west indis. although it is next to impossible to quantify the number of slaves who decided to head south rather than north the evidence suggests that escapes along the atlantic sea board to jamaica were not infrequent. and i want to turn to just -- one incidence here to explore this sort of international dimension to it. one incident in 1855 shows the inventiveness of the slaves and those who helped them when planning the escapes and the impact their actions could have on the relations between washington and london. relations had been strained over the refusal to return slaves and ships what had been driven by bad weather to take refuge in the bahamas and bermuda after the emancipation act. in 1831, the brick comment ran aground on the bahama i
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president, you didn't do very well on civil rights in texas. you didn't do very well as a congressman. and why are you taking this stand now? and there was this long pause. and a wasn't -- i had no idea what he was going to say. he said jim, i'll tell you. very few of us have the chance to the mistakes of our youth. and when you do, do it. i have cthat chance and i'm goig to do it now. he was reading his times in the context of the progressive evolution starts and stops of american government. i always say to any politician today, try to read the moment in the context of the long progressive history of this country, which has been one of constantly fighting, often losg to the franchise. that's what lbj did when it mattered most. >> jim deacon was a friend of mine, he was still covering the white house when i was the white house correspondent. but i remember that jim always had a way of kind of holding his head. and johnson always said, oh, you know, he's reporter that looks like he just smelled something [ laughter ] >> and he usually did. >> i
president, you didn't do very well on civil rights in texas. you didn't do very well as a congressman. and why are you taking this stand now? and there was this long pause. and a wasn't -- i had no idea what he was going to say. he said jim, i'll tell you. very few of us have the chance to the mistakes of our youth. and when you do, do it. i have cthat chance and i'm goig to do it now. he was reading his times in the context of the progressive evolution starts and stops of american government....
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states like texas have done the opposite. and they essentially reflect what people now popularly call the red and blue states, right? but what people don't actually often register is that actually only the minority of planned parenthood's services have to do with either abortion, which is just a tiny percentage, or even contraception. because planned parenthood serves essentially poor people. and they provide -- they provide mammograms for breast cancer screening. they do cervical cancer screening. they provide health services for men. they do prostate cancer screening. they teach safe sex, going along with screening for venereal disease or aids and so on. that's why i say it's part of this idea that we don't want big government spending money on these kinds of things. when, in fact, what we spend for every poor person that becomes pregnant and has a baby is, of course, far greater than what we spend on prevention. >> we've spent a good deal of time talking about birth control mainly for women. you've talked about the access
states like texas have done the opposite. and they essentially reflect what people now popularly call the red and blue states, right? but what people don't actually often register is that actually only the minority of planned parenthood's services have to do with either abortion, which is just a tiny percentage, or even contraception. because planned parenthood serves essentially poor people. and they provide -- they provide mammograms for breast cancer screening. they do cervical cancer...
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, an african-american from harrison county proposed the legislation in texas to create the public school system. so indeed, robert smalls, again, he is more intimately involved in creating the public school system down in buford county. >> and i want to add one point to dr. dulaney's commentary and that is, there were no wide-spread public schools in south carolina. you do have a few instances where planters or other individuals set up schools for their families. and in some cases, a few cases, african-americans were allowed to attend. but again there weren't any widespread public schools. >> right. in fact, there are public schools in charleston before the war but they were called pauper schools because the feeling was if you had money, you would send your children to private schools. you would not send them to these marginalized public schools. charleston has a number that is above the average and there is a legacy that carries over in charleston today. >> on your question about images there are at least three civil war images of robert smalls of which a very good portrait could be mad
, an african-american from harrison county proposed the legislation in texas to create the public school system. so indeed, robert smalls, again, he is more intimately involved in creating the public school system down in buford county. >> and i want to add one point to dr. dulaney's commentary and that is, there were no wide-spread public schools in south carolina. you do have a few instances where planters or other individuals set up schools for their families. and in some cases, a few...
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really hard manual labor, primarily in texas and louisiana. and the monument behind me is a monument to the soldiers of the 62nd and 65th united states colored infantry. in fact, in january of 1866, the war was over, the soldiers of the 62nd were about to be mustered out at fort mcintosh, texas, and began talking around a campfire, how can we pass this legacy of learning onto the freed men back in missouri? and they began to talk about raising money. they pledged money. they gave money. and it was an extraordinary sacrifice. some of these soldiers, privates in the united states colored infantry, were earning as little as a $113 a year. some of them gave $100, almost a year's wages, to start this institute. they gave their money and their pledges to a second lieutenant, named richard baxter foster, who was a congregationalist minister educated at dartmouth. i don't know he'd ever been in missouri. in the summer of 1866 when it began to appear that lincoln institute might be established in jefferson city, a local newspaper ran an editorial oppos
really hard manual labor, primarily in texas and louisiana. and the monument behind me is a monument to the soldiers of the 62nd and 65th united states colored infantry. in fact, in january of 1866, the war was over, the soldiers of the 62nd were about to be mustered out at fort mcintosh, texas, and began talking around a campfire, how can we pass this legacy of learning onto the freed men back in missouri? and they began to talk about raising money. they pledged money. they gave money. and it...
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. >>> next, tea party activist and former naacp texas chapter president c.l. bryant discusses why he left the democratic party to become a conservative. he was at this event, part of the annual leadership program of the rockies to show his movie entitled "runaway slave." this is about 50 minutes. matt kibbe is the president and ceo of freedom works and has been with citizens for a sound economy for over 15 years, an economist by training, matt kiby is a well-respected national public policy expert, best selling author and political commentator. "newsweek" called kibbe one of the master minds of the tea party politics. his exer per tease has led to frequent appearances on national news shows, including fox news, nbc, abc, cnn, msnbc, fox business, pbs and c-span, dubbed the scribe by "new york daily news," kibbe is co-author with dick armey of the "new york times" best-seller "give us liberty, a apartment manifesto." please help me welcome matt kibbe to lpr to introduce c.l. bryant. [ applause ] >> how you guys doing? does anyone here believe in freedom? does a
. >>> next, tea party activist and former naacp texas chapter president c.l. bryant discusses why he left the democratic party to become a conservative. he was at this event, part of the annual leadership program of the rockies to show his movie entitled "runaway slave." this is about 50 minutes. matt kibbe is the president and ceo of freedom works and has been with citizens for a sound economy for over 15 years, an economist by training, matt kiby is a well-respected...
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the gentleman from texas. mr. conway. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. i would oppose this. adding new complications to a program with limited funds, in my view, is not the right way to go at the time. i also heard my colleague say he wants to increase the program to $35 million. i'm not sheer he said where bewould get the other $10 million in the program. i would ask my colleagues not to support the program. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the other gentleman from texas. >> well, i appreciate -- >> move to strike the last word. >> strike the lard word. thank you. i appreciate the gentleman from new york's interest in broad band. i think it is important to have equal opportunity all over the country to make sure the whole country. i would love to work with you in the future on this issue. this ichb creases the authorization. the i.g. did update that report on february of 2011. it said three things. second point is funding competitive services rather than expanding to services to community without existing access. and the thir
the gentleman from texas. mr. conway. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. i would oppose this. adding new complications to a program with limited funds, in my view, is not the right way to go at the time. i also heard my colleague say he wants to increase the program to $35 million. i'm not sheer he said where bewould get the other $10 million in the program. i would ask my colleagues not to support the program. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. the chair...
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but addition, it would help meet regulatory requirements and produce, for example, $3.5 billion in texas, $3.9 in pennsylvania and $2.3 million in ohio. i ask for an adoption of this amendment. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. is there additional request for the gentleman from california? seeks recognition. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman is recognized. -- i would move to strike the last word. i would associate myself from mr. costa's remarks saying these dollars are an effort to allow farmers to deal with some of the burdens and regulations that they are saddled with. we all sat here previous months and meetings when we've tried to reign in and get epa to understand the plight of farmers. farmers are oftentimes are put at severe risk and burden under overregulation by this agency and this helps us comply with some federal mandates and i'd highly recommend that we adopt this measure that mr. costa has brought forward. thank you. >> the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes himself to strike the last word and is recognized for five minutes. equip is
but addition, it would help meet regulatory requirements and produce, for example, $3.5 billion in texas, $3.9 in pennsylvania and $2.3 million in ohio. i ask for an adoption of this amendment. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. is there additional request for the gentleman from california? seeks recognition. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman is recognized. -- i would move to strike the last word. i would associate myself from mr. costa's remarks...
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he said, he was born in beaumont, texas. he says, does that mean anything to you? i said, no, sir. you have to think, this is another generation, and i was dressed in a little three-piece suit, a thin tie. jack brooks reaches across the table, grabs my tie. and starts pulling me across the desk. big desk. he said, boy, that's my district. he said don't you ever hire somebody from my district without getting my approval. my neck tie was very tight at that point around my neck. and he dropped me. i go, yes, sir. so i went back. jack brooks -- i had the approval. john doar hired this person. highly qualified, congressman said, fine, i signed off on it. just a normal procedure. i think jack brooks many times called the congressman and want immediate fired, because, you know, i had done this, and this just can't happen. this is, you know a breach of protocol, you just never do this, and the congressman, being a good politician said, jack -- he said, sometimes i just can't control the kid. he just does things that i just can't, you know -- i just don't understand. then began the great re
he said, he was born in beaumont, texas. he says, does that mean anything to you? i said, no, sir. you have to think, this is another generation, and i was dressed in a little three-piece suit, a thin tie. jack brooks reaches across the table, grabs my tie. and starts pulling me across the desk. big desk. he said, boy, that's my district. he said don't you ever hire somebody from my district without getting my approval. my neck tie was very tight at that point around my neck. and he dropped me....
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of course, you all are all 254 counties in texas and i think a couple states we want to talk about in a few minutes. the i.c.e. reports show that through march 31st of 2012, more than 135,000 immigrants convicted of crimes including more than 49,000 convicted of felony offenses like murder and rape were removed from the u.s. after identification through secure community. my brother, who's a border sheriff, was given as an example how they stop somebody. they had somebody in jail. turned out he was there for murder in another state. so secure community does work, and it does help the local border law enforcement. given limited resources compared to the number of individuals unlawfully presented in the u.s., prioritizing criminals and particularly the serious criminals for removal keeps our community safer and is in the best use of taxpayer's dollars. the secure communities program has not been without controversy. i do understand that. i'm pleased to say that i.c.e., under the director morton's leadership, has taken steps to make enhancements to the program. for example, i was in houst
of course, you all are all 254 counties in texas and i think a couple states we want to talk about in a few minutes. the i.c.e. reports show that through march 31st of 2012, more than 135,000 immigrants convicted of crimes including more than 49,000 convicted of felony offenses like murder and rape were removed from the u.s. after identification through secure community. my brother, who's a border sheriff, was given as an example how they stop somebody. they had somebody in jail. turned out he...
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and texas, for political and economic reasons, wants to be off by itself. there are limited connections between those grids. >> other details about it, it's 10,000 generating units with over 3,200 electric distribution utilities and it has tens of thousands of miles of transmission and distribution lines. if you'd like to join the conversation, talking about the u.s. electric power grid and how tax money is spent on it, you can call 202-737-0001 if a democrat. republicans, 202-737-0002 if you're a republican. independents 202-628-0205. how does the federal government work on the grid system? >> i should clarify something. the grid was mostly builtly private companies. at this point, it's still added to by private companies and it's added to by something called regional transmission organizations, which through a consensus process decide where they need a new line. the federal government decides somewhat how it's going to be paid for and the federal government has made some little investments here and there. generally it's a private enterprise. the federal g
and texas, for political and economic reasons, wants to be off by itself. there are limited connections between those grids. >> other details about it, it's 10,000 generating units with over 3,200 electric distribution utilities and it has tens of thousands of miles of transmission and distribution lines. if you'd like to join the conversation, talking about the u.s. electric power grid and how tax money is spent on it, you can call 202-737-0001 if a democrat. republicans, 202-737-0002 if...
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., that apply properly and the folks in midland, texas, and the church in midland is very efficient. they have link with the other churches in town and they know the folks that need food help and those folks get it. they also know the folks who are trying to scam the system and they work to try to not let that happen as well. we don't have anything nearly that efficient within the program. our colleague mentioned the 3.8% air rate and that means we're wasting the fraud abuses a mere $4 billion, excuse me. that's a sizeable amount of money. >> would the gentleman yield? >> no. and so we're all going have to take a hard vote on this issue and we've looked at it and we've looked at the provisions and some of my colleagues would like to vote to try food stamp spending even more than the 16 that we proposed in this bill and i see it as a compromise to make sure we wind up with a bipartisan bill that comes up out of my committee. so these are targeted reductions that target folks who don't otherwise qualify to be on the programs and i'm hard pressed to offer the future americans that will
., that apply properly and the folks in midland, texas, and the church in midland is very efficient. they have link with the other churches in town and they know the folks that need food help and those folks get it. they also know the folks who are trying to scam the system and they work to try to not let that happen as well. we don't have anything nearly that efficient within the program. our colleague mentioned the 3.8% air rate and that means we're wasting the fraud abuses a mere $4 billion,...
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>> i asked him once, in the closing months of the administration, we were flying to texas. there wasn't as much to do and we had more time to talk. and i asked him on the plane -- what other politician, mr. president, other than yourself, do you most admire. i phrased it carefully. and i expected that he would say, richard russell of georgia. i expected that he would say fdr, who clearly, there was an umbilical link between the two of them. i expected he might say, mr. sam rayburn. without hesitation, he said -- the most skilled politician i ever knew in washington was dwight d. eisenhower. and he began talking about eisenhower's political genius, which was a revelation to me. and he said, who do you think the first person was that i called from air force one after the assassination on the second person after i called rose kennedy? i called eisenhower. i said i haven't been elected in this terrible tragedy. i don't know what to do. i want you to come to washington right away and give me advice. and he said, eisenhower came down from gettysburg and he said, mr. president, i'
>> i asked him once, in the closing months of the administration, we were flying to texas. there wasn't as much to do and we had more time to talk. and i asked him on the plane -- what other politician, mr. president, other than yourself, do you most admire. i phrased it carefully. and i expected that he would say, richard russell of georgia. i expected that he would say fdr, who clearly, there was an umbilical link between the two of them. i expected he might say, mr. sam rayburn....
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. >> before recognizing the gentleman from south carolina, i notice that the gentlewoman from texas, miss jackson-lee was in the room and stepped out. i will recognize her following the conclusion the gentleman of south carolina's questioning and i intend to be the last questioner and i would ask to have her brought back in the room. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. jaffer, you made reference to the clapper case. i don't have my notes in front of me. what was the brakedown of on bank? >> it was 6-6, in total eight judges agree that our plaintiffs had standing and six disagreed. >> it threw me off when you said the second circuit agreed with you, and i thought it was 6-6 and some people claim the victory and some people don't. if you prevailed the three-judge panel and you are entitled to have 6-6. >> it was three on the panel and the full court decided to not re-hear the case and there were eight judges who agreed with us and two of them didn't participate. >> let me see if you and i can agree on something? does it apply to foreign targets and foreign lands? >> i don't think that's
. >> before recognizing the gentleman from south carolina, i notice that the gentlewoman from texas, miss jackson-lee was in the room and stepped out. i will recognize her following the conclusion the gentleman of south carolina's questioning and i intend to be the last questioner and i would ask to have her brought back in the room. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. jaffer, you made reference to the clapper case. i don't have my notes in front of me. what was the brakedown...
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i believe the gentleman from texas, mr. naggerbauer, seeks recognition. >> i thank you, mr. chairman. we've been talking about families and families that are in it need, and you know, i want to tell you about another little family that's making $24,000 a year. unfortunately, this family is spending $37,000 a year, and so they're spending $13,000 more a year than they're making. and they just got their credit card statement the other day. and they found out that they owe $160,000 on their credit card. i think everybody would agree, that's a family that's got limited upside. unfortunately, the little family that i was just talking about is the united states of america. we have about $2.4 trillion in revenues, we're spending about $3.7 trillion. and what that little family is facing is what families all across the country are facing. we're going to have to make some tough choices. they cannot continue to sustain those kinds of deficits. this amendment, again, really begins to bring reform to a program that's expanding at an unsustainable rate. and if you don't do something appr
i believe the gentleman from texas, mr. naggerbauer, seeks recognition. >> i thank you, mr. chairman. we've been talking about families and families that are in it need, and you know, i want to tell you about another little family that's making $24,000 a year. unfortunately, this family is spending $37,000 a year, and so they're spending $13,000 more a year than they're making. and they just got their credit card statement the other day. and they found out that they owe $160,000 on their...
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state like texas, states like texas have done the opposite and they have essentially reflected of what people popularly call the red and blue states. but, what people don't actually often register is that only the minority of planned parenthood's services have to do with either abortion, which is a tiny percentage or even contraception, because planned parenthood serves poor people and they provide -- they provide mammograms and do cervical cancer is screening and prostate cancer screening and they teach safe sex as a going along with screeni screening for aids and so on. that is why i say it's part of this idea that we don't want big government spending money on these kinds of things. when of course, what we spend for every poor person that becomes pregnant and has a baby is of course, far greater than what we spend on prevention of it. >> we spent a good deal of time talking about birth control, mainly for women, you talked about the access of condoms. in your book, in your books, and particularly in the morale property book, what do you right about as the role of men in the politica
state like texas, states like texas have done the opposite and they have essentially reflected of what people popularly call the red and blue states. but, what people don't actually often register is that only the minority of planned parenthood's services have to do with either abortion, which is a tiny percentage or even contraception, because planned parenthood serves poor people and they provide -- they provide mammograms and do cervical cancer is screening and prostate cancer screening and...
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east but that was political suicide, because he's creating a new nation, a civil democracy in which texas is just as entitled to be defended by its army as virginia. he has this practical reality of two few men to defend too much territory, territory that geographically is not favorable to the confederacy in large part and the rivers, especially west of the appalachians, tend to go into the confederacy as natural avenues of invasion, whereas the potomac is a wonderful barrier or briefly was a wonderful barrier in the east. so i don't think he had much choice but to come up with what he called the offensive defensive or the defensive offensive. i never know which it is exactly and i never know what the difference is. i wrote a book about it but i don't know what it's about. [ laughter ] it's essentially the notion of hold everything, spread your forces thin or hold everything to keep the enemy heel from your homeland and as opportunities present themselves as a target of opportunity appears, concentrate forces quickly for a thrust into the north, not to conquer the north. it needs to be re
east but that was political suicide, because he's creating a new nation, a civil democracy in which texas is just as entitled to be defended by its army as virginia. he has this practical reality of two few men to defend too much territory, territory that geographically is not favorable to the confederacy in large part and the rivers, especially west of the appalachians, tend to go into the confederacy as natural avenues of invasion, whereas the potomac is a wonderful barrier or briefly was a...
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secure communities was launched in harris county, texas, in october of 2008. we have come a long, long way since that time. secure communities is now deployed in every state of the union and fully deployed in every state save alabama and illinois. put another way, secure communities has been deployed to 3,074 of the jurisdictions in the united states. a remarkable achievement in just under four years. i am confident we will complete full deployment in the near future starting with the remaining jurisdictions in alabama when the 11 circuit rules on impending litigation over immigration law. for the first time in our nation's history, we can uniformly identify individuals who are here unlawfully and are subsequently arrested for a crime provided their fingerprints are on file with the fbi and dhs. this fingerprint sharing between the fbi and dhs, itself mandated by congress in 2002, now permits i.c.e. to identify large numbers of criminal offenders subject to removal as well as individuals who have been previously removed or have an outstanding final order of re
secure communities was launched in harris county, texas, in october of 2008. we have come a long, long way since that time. secure communities is now deployed in every state of the union and fully deployed in every state save alabama and illinois. put another way, secure communities has been deployed to 3,074 of the jurisdictions in the united states. a remarkable achievement in just under four years. i am confident we will complete full deployment in the near future starting with the remaining...
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the full results of experimentation and the extension of the eagle fjord from texas from just the other side of the border are just becoming publicly available and there's oreason no assume that the geology won't work. what there's reason to be somewhat skeptical about is whether a company like pemex can do what the independent entrepreneurial companies of north america can do, and let me be very specific about this. what has allowed this to work and what makes it difficult for this to work in a company like pemex or saudi aramco or even exxon is that the entrepreneurial independents empower people at a significantly low level in the hierarchy, to make decisions about drilling and to experiment on drilling, and this enables the entrepreneurial companies to do things that others can't do. now, what has triggered this clearly was on the natural gas side, what's happening on natural gas is truly important, and cannot be ignored, because we look at the oil balances in north america, we have to think of where natural gas is going to by the end of this decade, almost certainly start displacin
the full results of experimentation and the extension of the eagle fjord from texas from just the other side of the border are just becoming publicly available and there's oreason no assume that the geology won't work. what there's reason to be somewhat skeptical about is whether a company like pemex can do what the independent entrepreneurial companies of north america can do, and let me be very specific about this. what has allowed this to work and what makes it difficult for this to work in...
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for what purpose does the gentleman of texas seek recognition. >> mr. chairman, it is not often i disagree with my good friend from iowa and we have the ranking member of the sub committee and i would urge opposition to the -- under the revenue program is because the revenue program protects against the county's crop revenue, not a farmer's crop revenue. without this provision of the bill a county would have a loss revenue, but the farmer if he was forced to be in the part of the county would have rain and is still collecting payment and that would make a bad news story and why does the price loss coverage need the same language? because the price loss coverage compares to the national average market price for the crop and the coverage is triggered. there's no distinction between the county and the producer. this kind of language is not appropriate and i urge the amendment be rejected. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. ranking member's recognized to strike the last word. >> chairman, move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized
for what purpose does the gentleman of texas seek recognition. >> mr. chairman, it is not often i disagree with my good friend from iowa and we have the ranking member of the sub committee and i would urge opposition to the -- under the revenue program is because the revenue program protects against the county's crop revenue, not a farmer's crop revenue. without this provision of the bill a county would have a loss revenue, but the farmer if he was forced to be in the part of the county...
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parts of texas -- all of text texas and parts of california. and so it's unique in than it has this geographic feature that it doesn't apply nationwide. it also requires something of states and localities that no other law requires. if you are covered under the voting rights act, whenever you pass a law with respect to voting, you must get pre-clearance from the department of justice or the u.s. district court for the district of columbia. okay. before that law goes into effect. whether you are moving a polling place or passing a redistricting plan, you have to get permission from the federal government to pass and enforce that law. and the d.c. district court or the doj will decide whether the law has a discriminatory purpose, any discriminatory purpose, and whether it has a retrogressive effect. retrogressive is a term of art in voting rights law that means does it make minorities worse off. okay. and in particular, does it diminish the ability of a racial group to elect their preferred candidates of choice? all right. so if it has either a d
parts of texas -- all of text texas and parts of california. and so it's unique in than it has this geographic feature that it doesn't apply nationwide. it also requires something of states and localities that no other law requires. if you are covered under the voting rights act, whenever you pass a law with respect to voting, you must get pre-clearance from the department of justice or the u.s. district court for the district of columbia. okay. before that law goes into effect. whether you are...
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once the republicans gain control of the state legislature in texas, they then redrew the lines. you can see many of these districts going all the way from mexico to the austin metro area. and as a result of these -- this districting plan you can see all the other funny shapes up here and here. this is houston. and i think dallas. that as result of this redistricting plan, something like four or five democrats lost their seats. and were replaced by republicans. as it turned out, we'll talk about this when we do the voting rights act. the supreme court struck down this district as violating section 2 of the voting rights act because it diluted the hispanic vote, but when it came to the aggressive use of partisanship in the drawing of lines, the court didn't find it to be unconstitutional. even if it was done in the middle of a decade. one sort of story or lessen to be learned from both cases is that the -- while, there are partisan gerrymandering claims in found favor with the court, partisan claims are often litigated through other claims. like in the case of -- versus cox or sec
once the republicans gain control of the state legislature in texas, they then redrew the lines. you can see many of these districts going all the way from mexico to the austin metro area. and as a result of these -- this districting plan you can see all the other funny shapes up here and here. this is houston. and i think dallas. that as result of this redistricting plan, something like four or five democrats lost their seats. and were replaced by republicans. as it turned out, we'll talk...